Boogie Down Productions
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Hip Hop Wig Out '87 #2: The Big Chill — Skinny Boys and Scott La Rock
Interview by Frank Owen, Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 28 March 1987
IN THE SECOND REPORT FROM NEW YORK ON HIP-HOP'S LATEST ULTRA-NOW TALENTS, SIMON REYNOLDS SURVEYS THE MONSTROUS AND MIND-BLOWING TALENT OF THE SKINNY BOYS WHILE ...
DJ Scott La Rock And KRS 1 (aka Boogie Down Productions): Criminal Minded (B-Boy Records)
Review by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 23 May 1987
BRONX AGE MEN ...
Review by John McCready, New Musical Express, 11 July 1987
IN NEW YORK, there's a war going on. Television ignores it, the papers don't speak of it. It's a war where most of the bloodshed ...
Boogie Down Productions: Rap Attack
Report by Amy Linden, Spin, August 1987
ON RECORD, M.C. Shan is the mortal enemy of Boogie Down Productions' Scott LaRock and KRS One. They've been trading insults and waging a dis ...
Scott La Rock: Wasted in the Zoo
Interview by Frank Owen, New Musical Express, 26 September 1987
Less than a month ago, the Bronx rap supremo SCOTT LA ROCK was tragically shot dead in a street brawl, the very day he'd signed a ...
KRS-1, Boogie Down Productions: By All Means Necessary (Jive US Import)
Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 30 April 1988
LOVE AND BULLETS ...
Boogie Down Productions: By All Means Necessary (Jive HIP 63)
Review by Damon Wise, Sounds, 4 June 1988
FIRING FROM THE LIP ...
Review by Jon Young, Musician, August 1988
RECENTLY THE paper brought news that two men have been arrested for the murder of DJ Scott LaRock last year, giving By All Means Necessary ...
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 22 July 1989
Metaphysics... conspiracy theories...the harmony of the Universe...and YOU thought KRS-1 was just a hot rapper! JACK BARRON gets philosophical with the boss of Boogie Down. ...
Boogie Down Productions/KRS-1, Redhead Kingpin: Town And Country Club, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 29 July 1989
SURVIVAL OF THE BRUTISH ...
Boogie Down Productions: Ghetto Music – The Blueprint Of Hip Hop (Jive Hip 80)
Review by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 8 August 1989
AS IF you didn't know, KRS One takes himself very seriously, and that's no bad thing. However, if he really is the peace maker that ...
Report and Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, January 1990
RAIN IS STREAMING down in sheets on the Long Island suburb of Hempstead but, inside Public Enemy's headquarters, the group's leader Chuck D is just ...
Boogie Down Productions: Edutainment (Jive Hip 100)
Review by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 28 August 1990
KRS-ONE, AS we all know, doesn't make music to dance to... although it's danceable. He doesn't make music that's going to attain daytime radio play... ...
KRS-One: Wisdom From The Street
Profile and Interview by Alan Light, Rolling Stone, 30 May 1991
Kris Parker once lived in the subways and shelters of New York. Now the rapper known as KRS-One is hip-hop's righteous voice — and one ...
Boogie Down Productions: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Angus Batey, New Musical Express, 18 July 1992
BDP ARE one of few constants in the fast-moving, ever-changing hip-hop world. Since 1986 they've put out hardcore classics without concession to passing fads, earning ...
Retrospective and Interview by Angus Batey, MOJO, September 2003
Back in 1986 hip hop entered a golden age — lyrical revolution, sonic innovation, and individuality — that gave rise to such rap legends as ...
see also KRS-One
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